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RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CONFLICTS AND CHANGE VOLUME 42

RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CONFLICTS AND CHANGE

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PATRICK G. COY

Kent State University, USA

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List of Contributors

About the Contributors

Amanda D. Clark received her PhD in Political Science from Kent State University with a dissertation titled “Framing Strategies and Social Movement Coalitions: Assessing Tactical Diffusion in the Fight against Human Trafficking from 2008–2014.” Dr Clark’s research interests include social movements, community development, and the US policy process. She is also interested in the intersections of organizational theory and social movement strategy and has published co-authored book chapters on the nonviolent dynamics of the Nashville student sit-in campaign of 1960 and on community control in local organizing and development policy.

Patrick G. Coy is Professor and Interim Director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Albert Einstein Institution, and the American Sociological Association. His many publications include a co-authored book, Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power and Strategy in the Peace Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), edited books on Social Conflicts and Collective Identities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), and A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker (originally published by Temple University Press, 1988). He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on conflict analysis, social movements, nonviolent action, unarmed civilian peacekeeping, community mediation, and peace and conflict studies. He was previously a Fulbright Scholar in Botswana, working with the Research Centre on San (Bushman) Studies. He has served as the Series Editor of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change since 2000.

Prentiss A. Dantzler is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of the Urban Studies minor at Colorado College. Dr Dantzler is also a Faculty Fellow through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. As an interdisciplinary scholar, his research and teaching largely focuses on urban poverty, race and ethnic relations, housing policy, and community development. Dr Dantzler is currently studying voluntary and involuntary residential mobility among housing assistance recipients. His work has been published in academic outlets including The Urban Lawyer (American Bar Association), the Journal of Urban History (Sage Publications), and Urban Affairs Review (Sage Publications).

Danielle N. Gage is the Program Coordinator for the College of Social Sciences Center for Research at the University of West Georgia. She holds an MA in Sociology from the University of West Georgia. Her research interests include social movements and community engagement.

Kathryn Gasparro is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and is also a Research Affiliate of the Stanford Global Project Center. Her research focuses on the governance and management of infrastructure projects and the impact they have in communities. Currently, she is working on a project that identifies innovative ways communities and other partners engage with local government during infrastructure delivery.

Michelle I. Gawerc is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at Loyola University Maryland. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social movement studies and peace and conflict studies. She is the author of Prefiguring Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding Partnerships (Lexington Books, 2012). Her research has also been published in numerous journals including: Mobilization: An International Quarterly; Social Movement Studies (Taylor & Francis); Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change (Emerald Publishing); Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (Wiley); International Journal of Peace Studies; Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (Taylor & Francis); Peace Review (Taylor & Francis); and Conflict Resolution Quarterly (Wiley). Her current research focuses on Palestinian-Israeli peace and anti-occupation movement organizations and coalitions.

Piotr Konieczny is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informational Sociology, Hanyang University, South Korea. He has received his PhD degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He is interested in the sociology of the Internet and social movements, in particular in topics such as free culture, wikis and their impact on individuals and organizations, decision-making processes and organizational structure of Wikipedia, patterns of behavior among Wikipedia contributors, and relations between wikis and social movements.

Ashley E. Nickels is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. Dr Nickels is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose teaching and research centers on issues of power, privilege, and democratic participation in the fields of urban politics, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and public administration. Her work is highly influenced by her years working in feminist community activism. Dr Nickels is Co-editor of two books: Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology (with Dani Vilella; Belt Publishing, 2017) and Community Development and Public Administration Theory: Promoting Democratic Principles to Improve Communities (with Jason D. Rivera; Routledge Press, 2018). She also serves on the board of editors for the Journal of Public Affairs Education (NASPAA), and as Chair-elect of ARNOVA’s section on Community and Grassroots Associations.

Alexandra V. Orlova is Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies (Faculty of Arts), and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. She received her PhD in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2004. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Osgoode Hall Law School. Her main research interests focus on international constitutionalism, human rights, and transnational organized crime and corruption. She has published widely in the areas of international law as well as traditional and non-traditional security threats. Dr Orlova provided expert opinions pertaining to organized crime and human trafficking to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre as well as for lawyers representing victims of organized crime and human trafficking in Canada and the UK.

Nicolás M. Somma is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on social movements, political sociology, and comparative-historical sociology. His work has appeared in several journals, including Party Politics (Sage Publications), Comparative Politics (Sage Publications), Latin American Politics and Society (Wiley), and The Sociological Quarterly (Wiley), as well as in several book chapters. He also co-authored the book Vínculos, Creencias e Ilusiones. La Cohesión Social de los Latinoamericanos (Links, Beliefs, and Hopes. The Social Cohesion of Latin Americans, Uqbar Editores, Santiago de Chile, Colección CIEPLAN, 2008). Currently, Nicolás is studying the social profiles, motivations, and mobilization trajectories of participants in eight demonstrations in Argentina and Chile through the use of structured survey questionnaires (following the Caught in the Act of Protest methodology). He is also exploring the political and economic determinants of collective protest in Chilean localities with the help of a protest events dataset based on several national and regional media.

Winston B. Tripp is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of West Georgia. He earned a PhD in Sociology from Penn State University in 2013. His research and teaching interests include social movements, environmental sociology, and community engagement.

Mohammad Yaghi holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Guelph, Canada. His research focuses on social movements, media and cultural, identity and citizenship, and the popular protests in the Middle East. Dr Yaghi taught at the Universities of Guelph and Toronto, and at Queen’s University. He is the author of the article “Media and Sectarianism in the Middle East: Saudi Hegemony over Pan-Arab Media” (International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics (2017), Vol. 13 Issue 1/2, pp. 39–56). He is also the author of the book chapters: “Neoliberal Reforms, Protests, and Enforced Patron-Client Relations in Tunisia and Egypt” (Routledge, 2018) and “Why Did Tunisian and Egyptian Youth Activists Fail to Build Competitive Political Parties?” (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Currently, Dr Yaghi is Research Fellow at the German Konrad Adenauer Stiftung focusing his work on the Gulf States.

Yang Zhang is Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington, DC. His research covers the areas of political sociology, contentious politics, historical sociology, and social networks. Zhang received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. His dissertation “Insurgent Dynamics: The Coming of the Chinese Rebellions, 1850–1873” won the 2017 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Dissertation Award from American Sociological Association’s Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Building upon this dissertation, Zhang’s book manuscript examines the emergence and development of large-scale religious and ethnic rebellions in the Qing Empire of China during the mid-nineteenth century. In other projects, Zhang studies the interaction of state officials, ENGOs, and grassroots activists in environmental movements in contemporary China.